Drum Set With Cymbals Coloring Page

This Drum Set With Cymbals Coloring Page draws a whole kit head on: a bass drum with its pedal at the front, a snare with two sticks resting on it, four toms banked behind and two cymbals held out on tripod stands. Nothing is drawn at an angle and nothing is cut off. A free printable drum set with cymbals coloring page for kids ages 4 to 10, and the busiest instrument page in this collection. There are nine separate drum surfaces to fill before the hardware even starts.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: "A full drum set seen from the front, bass drum below, snare and toms in the middle and two cymbals on tall stands above" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds. The bass drum pedal at the front came with it.

"Seen from the front" is the phrase that made this page usable. A drum kit asked for without a viewpoint is almost always drawn from above and to the side, the angle a drummer sees, and from there every drum is an ellipse overlapping two others. Head on, each drum keeps a clean circular face and a straight sided shell, and a child can tell where one ends. Naming the parts in order, bass then snare and toms then cymbals, is what stacked them up the page instead of spreading them sideways.

About this drum set with cymbals coloring page

This is the page in the set for a child who wants to keep going. Where the cute drum page has three drums and a face, this one has nine surfaces, two stands, a pedal and a spread of lugs, and it will hold someone for half an hour.

None of that detail is fiddly, which is the important part. Every piece is a large shape with its own outline, so the page is long rather than hard, and a child never needs a fine tip to stay inside a line.

Here is the count. Two cymbals at the top, each a wide flattened oval with a small raised bell at its center, mounted on an arm that bends down into a tripod with three legs and rounded feet. Both stands carry a collar sleeve partway down. Four tom drums sit in the middle: two upright at the back, each with about seven vertical panels and a rimmed edge, and two lower ones at the sides, each with a row of lugs along its shell. The snare sits in front of them, its head drawn as a full circle with a rimmed edge and a band of about twelve lugs around it. Two sticks lie across the snare head, crossed, each tapering to a tip. The bass drum is the largest shape, a wide double ring with about ten lugs around the rim, two feet under it and a pedal in front drawn with a footboard, a heel plate and an upright beater.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Real kits are one color for every shell, so picking a single color for all nine surfaces is not a shortcut, it is what a drum kit looks like. Deep red, black and dark blue are the common ones. The cymbals then go yellow or gold and the stands silver, and the page is finished.

The lugs are worth the extra minute. There are about thirty of them across the kit, and coloring every one of them silver against a dark shell is what turns a flat drawing into something that looks like metal hardware. The pedal at the front is the smallest assembly on the page and the one most likely to get skipped, but leaving it white when the drums are dark makes it disappear entirely.

Is there a kit in your garage? Turn a photo into a coloring page and print your own drums to color.